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That grand designs what people are on about was class, He said to the bloke something like:
"why pay the expense of having to fly over German workers?"
"because no one over here can do it too a good enough standard"

Next clip Kevin McCloud is there on the roof trying his best not to smile explaining that the outer of the roof will need to come off and be repaired at a huge expense.
Love watching Grand Designs but really annoys me that every other episode he says in his closing comments something along the lines of "i thought blah blah blah was crazy to try such a thing but you know what?, it works"

Watched that Cowboy builders last night, load of crap.

Bit disappointed DIY SOS didn't get a mention, enjoy watching that.
 
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Bit disappointed DIY SOS didn't get a mention, enjoy watching that.

There really are too many to mention I only listed a couple that came into my head. DIY SOS is one of the ones that is a good watch, that's pretty much how most of my days go with a bit of laugh here and there but still getting it done. I tend to find that most of my customers actually enjoy watching us stitching each other up! Of course I have a lot of customers that prefer the ultra professional approach and we do that to, anything to keep the customer happy and relaxed
 
Watched that repeat of grand designs the other night with the leaky german flat roof as far ime concerned it was never going to work and ime not sure thats the way they do it there seems like it was a new idea but anyway i worked in germany for sometime and generaly they work to a good standard but youiget bodgers everywhere.
Andy
 
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I hope my original post didn't come across as me slating German builders? In fact I admire a lot of their techniques but my point is that most of the work is done off site so it seems to Joe public that they are more efficient, in many ways they are but we just don't have that sort of infrastructure in the UK. Because of that, the few companies in the UK that can work in this way are very expensive because of the limited amount of work they get means they can't be competitive
 
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